It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore.

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All right, let's talk about reckoning, shall we?

Because we're going to go over a lot tonight.

COVID, military stuff.

There's going to be a lot of things.

But let's just set this up with why we need one.

Because this can be something that is hard for us on the right. It traditionally has been very, very difficult for us on the right.

The right, probably you, probably me, if I'm being honest, at least in the past,

we've seen ourselves as being kind of the adults, right?

You have these rabid little Democrat

commie children. They're always going crazy and trying to ruin things. Let's, okay, let's get things

cleaned up, get the kids calm down. Let's restore order and get everything calm down. But this is

the problem, you see. That mentality doesn't work when you're dealing with people

who don't want peace at all. They have no desire for peace. That's something you want. You want to live

peacefully with your fellow man. You want things to calm down. You want the fighting to stop.

You want the... That's not how they look at anything. They want to fight about everything at all times.

Because you are, here's what you are.

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